Asad Umar said the opposition was doing politics over the corona virus situation.
SUKKUR (Dunya News) – Federal Minister for Planning, Development and Special Initiatives Asad Umar said those who consider themselves political gods have gathered to fight Prime Minister Imran Khan.
Asad Umar spoke to media in Sukkur on Saturday and said the opposition was doing politics over the coronavirus situation and urged political opponents to protect the lives of their workers as their own.
He said the federal government would fully cooperate to resolve the Sindh issue, and development packages would be announced for Sukkur and North Sindh. The Sindh people will also soon see a change, he added.
Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) follows the COVID-19 standard operating procedure (SOP) and does not hold rallies, he said, adding that the opposition could also hold ceremonies following the coronavirus protocol.
The World Health Organization’s special envoy for COIVD-19 has criticized Europe’s response to warnings the new virus could trigger a third wave next year.
“The reaction in Europe has been insufficient,” said David Nabarro in interviews conducted on Sunday by the newspaper at CH Media Group and by the Swiss news agency Keystone-SDA.
“There was a failure to build the necessary infrastructure in the summer after the first wave was contained. And now there is a second wave. If the necessary infrastructure is not built now, there will be a third wave, early next year,” warned Nabarro.
The WHO envoy said Europe needs to look at how Asian countries are handling the pandemic.
“One has to react quickly to the virus, firmly and decisively,” he said. “Especially in the beginning, when the virus is still spreading very slowly in different communities. If you react halfheartedly, the problem will escalate very quickly.”
Nabarro said that too few political decision makers understand that the virus is spreading exponentially.
This means that it is exponential, the number can go up 8 times a week, 40 times in two weeks, 300 times in three weeks, above 1,000 times in four weeks, and so on, “he said.
But in Asia, the numbers are relatively low because “people are fully engaged, they are taking on behaviors that complicate the virus,” Nabarro said.
“They keep their distance, wear masks, isolate when sick, wash their hands and surface. They protect the most endangered groups.”
Nabarro also said Asia had not relaxed restrictions too early. “You have to wait until the number of cases decreases and remains low,” he said. “The European reaction is incomplete.”
Nabarro works from Geneva and said that there was a lack of support for some of the people infected with the virus in Switzerland.
“Switzerland has a high number of cases, especially French speaking Switzerland, so it needs a much stronger strategy from the authorities, along with the population,” he said.
Over the seven days to November 20, the Swiss Federal Public Health Office reported 615 deaths among laboratory-confirmed COVID-19 cases, bringing the death toll to 3,575 from the start and the deadliest since the arrival of the virus, accounting for 17.% of the total deaths.
In the week ending November 20, there were 33,466 cases, a 26% decrease, and approximately 162,000 tests were conducted with a 21% positive test.
The World Health Organization’s COVID-19 special envoy David Nabarro told Solothurn Newspaper in Switzerland that Europe is likely to see a third wave of the deadly COVID-19 pandemic in early 2021 before a vaccine can be introduced.
“They lagged behind building the necessary infrastructure during the summer months after they took control of the first wave,” said Nabarro. “Now we have a second wave. If they don’t build the necessary infrastructure, we’ll have a third wave early next year.”
He also said Europe has a lot to learn from Asian countries. “One has to react quickly to the virus, firmly and decisively,” he said. “Especially in the beginning, when the virus is still spreading very slowly in different communities. If you react halfheartedly, the problem will escalate very quickly.”
Europe has briefly enjoyed a fall in infection rates over the summer, but now they are jumping again. Germany, with a population of 84 million, saw cases increase by 14,000 on Sunday.
WHO special envoy for COVID-19 David Nabarro
In contrast, Japan’s population of 120 million saw only 2,596 new cases as of Saturday. South Korea’s population of 51 million reported only 386 new cases on the same day and has only had a total of about 30,700 confirmed cases since the pandemic began.
The main problem, Nabarro added, is that too few political decision makers understand that the virus is spreading exponentially and arithmetic. This means that it is exponential, the number can go up 8 times a week, 40 times in two weeks, 300 times in three weeks, above 1,000 times in four weeks, and so on, “he said.
While in Asia, the figures are relatively low because “people are fully engaged, they are taking on behaviors that make it difficult to catch the virus,” Nabarro said.
“They keep their distance, wear masks, isolate when sick, wash their hands and surfaces. They protect the most endangered groups.”
Nabarro also said Asia had not relaxed restrictions too early. “You have to wait until the number of cases decreases and remains low,” he said. “The European reaction is incomplete.”
He also praised the communication between authorities in Asia and Europe. “They only have one message: If we want our economies to be strong and for us to maintain freedom, we all have to stick to some basics.”
More than 10 months have passed since the new coronavirus was identified in the Chinese city of Wuhan, and the global debate about how the pandemic started has been around for nearly that long. Zeng Guang, a former chief epidemiologist at China’s Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) now claims that Covid-19 did not originate in China. He cited a study by the Italian city of Milan’s National Cancer Institute (INT), which showed that Covid-19 had circulated in Italy in September 2019, several months before it was reported in Wuhan in December 2019. According to Guang, the virus, however, was first detected in China thanks to the monitoring system that was built in the country after the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) outbreak.
“Wuhan is where the coronavirus was first detected, but it turns out to be not where it comes from. China has built the world’s leading monitoring system for reporting unknown pneumonia since the SARS outbreak in 2003. We are always on high alert. Thanks to this system, we can be the first in the world to identify Covid-19, “Guang said in an online academic conference, according to the South China Morning Post (SCMP).
The theory that the virus originated elsewhere has been echoed by Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian, who, according to The Times (UK), said, “This (referring to Italian research) once again shows that tracing the source of the virus is complex scientific questions that must be left to scientists. (It) is a developing process that can involve multiple countries. ”
A similar suggestion was made recently by Wu Zunyou, the current head of epidemiology at the Chinese CDC. Zunyou recently claimed that SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes Covid-19, could enter China through imports of frozen seafood or meat products. WHO, however, states that it is “very unlike that people can catch Covid-19 from food or food packaging. ”
According to timeline Regarding WHO’s response to Covid-19, on December 31, 2019, the agency’s state office in China retrieved a media statement by the Wuhan Municipal Health Commission from their website regarding a case of “viral pneumonia” in Wuhan. On January 9, WHO reported that Chinese authorities had determined that the outbreak was caused by a new coronavirus.
On January 9, WHO reported that Chinese authorities had determined that the outbreak was caused by a new coronavirus (Getty Images)
The World Health Organization (WHO) is currently investigating the origins of the coronavirus. “China will continue to take part in global scientific research in tracing the origin and route of transmission of the virus, and work with other international communities to contribute to global cooperation in fighting Covid-19 and other viruses,” said Lijian.
What did the Italian study find?
According to official records, Italy’s first two coronavirus cases were recorded on January 30, 2020, when two tourists from China tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 in Rome. Italy’s first laboratory-confirmed case of Covid-19 was identified in Lombardy on February 20, 2020, in a 38-year-old man with no history of possible contact with a positive case in Italy or abroad. Within a few days, additional coronavirus infections were recorded in the surrounding area. Based on the identification of the first case, it is suspected that the virus has been circulating in Italy since January 2020.
The latest Italian study, however, says that Covid-19 may have emerged in Italy much earlier than previously believed. Italian researchers indicated that 11.6% of the 959 healthy volunteers enrolled in the lung cancer screening trial between September 2019 and March 2020 had developed coronavirus antibodies long before February. Further SARS-CoV-2 antibody tests were performed, which revealed that four cases in the first week of October were also positive for SARS-CoV-2 antibodies, indicating that they had been infected in September.
The paper entitled “The unexpected detection of SARS-CoV-2 antibodies in pre-pandemic period in Italy ”has been published in the Tumori Journal. “We investigated the presence of SARS-CoV-2 receptor-binding domain (RBD) specific antibodies in blood samples of 959 asymptomatic individuals enrolled in a prospective lung cancer screening trial between September 2019 and March 2020 to track onset date, frequency. , and temporal and geographic variations throughout Italy. SARS-CoV-2 antibodies were detected in 111 of 959 (11.6%) individuals, starting September 2019 (14%), with a group of positive cases (more than 30%) in the second week of February 2020 and the highest number. (53.2%) in Lombardy, “write the authors.
The team said the results showed that SARS-CoV-2 “circulated in Italy earlier than the first official case of Covid-19 diagnosed in Lombardy, even long before the first official report from Chinese authorities, providing new clues to the onset and spread of” the coronavirus pandemic. “This study demonstrates the unexpected initial circulation of SARS-CoV-2 among asymptomatic individuals in Italy several months before the first patient is identified, and clarifies the onset and spread of the Covid-19 pandemic. Finding SARS-CoV-2 antibodies in asymptomatic people before the Covid-19 outbreak in Italy could reshape the history of the pandemic, ”they concluded.
However, according to the research team, their analysis don’t argue the origin of the corona virus. “These findings only document that the epidemic in China was not detected in time,” said Giovanni Apolone, INT’s scientific director and co-author of the study, at a press conference in Milan, Reuters reported. Erasing Lijian’s claim, Apolone told The Times (UK), “We know that China has delayed announcing the outbreak so no one knows when it started there.”
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More than 10 months have passed since the new coronavirus was identified in the Chinese city of Wuhan, and the global debate about how the pandemic started has been around for nearly that long. Zeng Guang, a former chief epidemiologist at China’s Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) now claims that Covid-19 did not originate in China. He cited a study by the Italian city of Milan’s National Cancer Institute (INT), which showed that Covid-19 circulated in Italy in September 2019, several months before it was reported in Wuhan in December 2019. According to Guang, the virus, however, was first detected in China. thanks to a monitoring system built in the country after the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) outbreak.
“Wuhan is where the coronavirus was first detected, but it turns out to be not where it comes from. China has built the world’s leading monitoring system for reporting unknown pneumonia since the SARS outbreak in 2003. We are always on high alert. Thanks to this system, we can be the first in the world to identify Covid-19, “Guang said in an online academic conference, according to the South China Morning Post (SCMP).
The theory that the virus originated elsewhere has been echoed by Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian, who, according to The Times (UK), said, “This (referring to Italian research) once again shows that tracing the source of the virus is complex scientific questions that must be left to scientists. (It) is a developing process that can involve multiple countries. ”
A similar suggestion was made recently by Wu Zunyou, the current head of epidemiology at the Chinese CDC. Zunyou recently claimed that SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes Covid-19, could have entered China through imports of frozen seafood or meat products. WHO, however, states that it is “very unlike that people can catch Covid-19 from food or food packaging. ”
According to timeline Regarding WHO’s response to Covid-19, on December 31, 2019, the agency’s state office in China retrieved a media statement by the Wuhan Municipal Health Commission from their website regarding a case of “viral pneumonia” in Wuhan. On January 9, WHO reported that Chinese authorities had determined that the outbreak was caused by a new coronavirus.
On January 9, WHO reported that Chinese authorities had determined that the outbreak was caused by a new coronavirus (Getty Images)
The World Health Organization (WHO) is currently investigating the origins of the coronavirus. “China will continue to take part in global scientific research in tracing the origin and route of transmission of the virus, and work with other international communities to contribute to global cooperation in fighting Covid-19 and other viruses,” said Lijian.
What did the Italian study find?
According to official records, Italy’s first two coronavirus cases were recorded on January 30, 2020, when two tourists from China tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 in Rome. Italy’s first laboratory-confirmed case of Covid-19 was identified in Lombardy on February 20, 2020, in a 38-year-old man with no history of possible contact with a positive case in Italy or abroad. Within a few days, additional coronavirus infections were recorded in the surrounding area. Based on the identification of the first case, it is hypothesized that the virus has been circulating in Italy since January 2020.
The latest Italian study, however, says that Covid-19 may have emerged in Italy much earlier than previously believed. Italian researchers indicated that 11.6% of the 959 healthy volunteers enrolled in the lung cancer screening trial between September 2019 and March 2020 had developed coronavirus antibodies long before February. Further SARS-CoV-2 antibody tests were carried out, which revealed that four cases in the first week of October were also positive for SARS-CoV-2 antibodies, indicating that they had been infected in September.
The paper entitled “The unexpected detection of SARS-CoV-2 antibodies in pre-pandemic period in Italy ”has been published in the Tumori Journal. “We investigated the presence of SARS-CoV-2 receptor-binding domain (RBD) specific antibodies in blood samples of 959 asymptomatic individuals enrolled in a prospective lung cancer screening trial between September 2019 and March 2020 to track onset date, frequency. , and temporal and geographic variations throughout Italy. SARS-CoV-2 antibodies were detected in 111 of 959 (11.6%) individuals, starting September 2019 (14%), with a group of positive cases (more than 30%) in the second week of February 2020 and the highest number. (53.2%) in Lombardy, “write the authors.
The team said the results showed that SARS-CoV-2 “circulated in Italy earlier than the first official case of Covid-19 diagnosed in Lombardy, even long before the first official report from Chinese authorities, providing new clues to the onset and spread of” the coronavirus pandemic. “This study demonstrates the unexpected initial circulation of SARS-CoV-2 among asymptomatic individuals in Italy several months before the first patient is identified, and clarifies the onset and spread of the Covid-19 pandemic. Finding SARS-CoV-2 antibodies in asymptomatic people before the Covid-19 outbreak in Italy could reshape the history of the pandemic, ”they concluded.
However, according to the research team, their analysis don’t argue the origin of the corona virus. “These findings only document that the epidemic in China was not detected in time,” said Giovanni Apolone, INT’s scientific director and co-author of the study, at a press conference in Milan, Reuters reported. Erasing Lijian’s claim, Apolone told The Times (UK), “We know that China has delayed announcing the outbreak so no one knows when it started there.”
For more information and statistics on the coronavirus pandemic, click the Newsbreak tracker here
